Synopsis
Rowan Cox wakes up in a barren room, alone with a mysterious girl he's never seen before. He quickly comes to realise that things are very much out of place.
After the prologue, the world is in political turmoil, with major figures dropping dead like flies. Rowan joins his friend's detective agency, and is dragged feet-first into the troubles.

Characters (Left to right)Stanley Cooper - A friend of Josh's. Very much the strong, silent type.Chloe Lance - A college friend of Josh, and co-owner of the agency. Despite her relatively open and mocking personality, she keeps to herself a lot.Josh Butler - Rowan's best friend, and childhood friend. Runs a detective agency with his friend Chloe. Tall, and never seen without his slightly hipster detective get-up.Dominic King - An old friend of Chloe's, with a fierce intelligence and a wild sadistic streak.The Girl - I'll leave this spoiler free. Sufficient to say, buckets of fun

Some Art
Sorry about the links, the host only allows posting of images up to 800px wide, and I didn't want to reduce the quality of the images.

I thought I'd put some progress sketches here, so you know we're not dead.
or if it helps you understand our thought process when designing characters.

one of the characters I designed was emily, the little sister of the main character, rowan.
shortly before I joined, another artist made a few sketches, which I based mine off of. here's one of the sketches I was given to work with:

initially, I emphasised the little sister attributes, and went with a cutesy imouto character design:

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the boss didn't think it fit and after I got a chance to read the character descriptions and plot more closely I thought so too.

after a bit of a hiatus I resdesigned the character, aging her up and downplaying the "moeness"

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After that, it's simply a matter of shading, adjusting colours as necessary. I changed the shirt colour and upped the saturation of the overalls to complement the colour scheme better.
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